Provide COVID-19 testing and PPE to residents and care workers · petition

What the petition asks

Ensure that all residents and carers in homes and hospices are tested for coronavirus and any other virus that will follow.
Provide PPE for care workers to the same standard as the NHS.
Legislate for equality in level of care for NHS and care workers and patients.

I buried my father today, he had dementia but sadly caught coronavirus and passed away two weeks ago. We couldn’t be with him but he was cared for by amazing staff who were on lockdown along with the patients. As there are no tests being carried out outside of hospitals, it is impossible to say whether the carers are carrying anything in. This could have saved him but equally as important there are amazing carers that are putting their lives on the line and their safety has not been sufficiently considered

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign these petitions calling for the same action:

Supply PPE to all Health and Social Care workers including community carers: Supply PPE to all Health and Social Care workers including community carers

Provide urgent support and PPE to carers during coronavirus crisis: Provide urgent support and PPE to carers during coronavirus crisis

We would like the government to consider social care as equally important to NHS: We would like the government to consider social care as equally important to NHS

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

Timeline

14 Apr 2020	Petition opened for signatures
26 May 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee